Like the vigilante he played in Taken, Liam Neeson has “a very particular set of skills.” One of them is imbuing formulaic characters with an intimidating authority beyond what the script calls for. Taken was ...

Liam Neeson’s hypnotic, sensual baritone does more for The Grey than its metaphysical musings—imminent death being a surefire stimuli to those kinds of conversations—and more than the gripping plane crash that sets this survivalist tale ...